I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than Idid, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a...r />metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fastas the rain in the Store closet it would be charming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But when... it comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

My sweetest Lesbia let us live and love,And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,...Let us not weigh them: Heav'n's great lamps do diveInto their west, and straight again revive,But soon as once set is our little light,Then must we sleep one ever-during night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"What we know, is a point to what we do not know." Open any recent journal of science, and weigh the problems suggested concerning... Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Physiology, Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a s...keptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make o...f all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »